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These are late-blooming qualities in Daniel. The only son of a South Carolina strip miner, Daniel grew up in Orange, Va. He slipped and slid through four years as a geography major at the University of Virginia. "My grades," he remarked, "were all over the place." His academic performance was so uneven that he was not accepted at the University of Virginia law school. The University of Richmond's law school took him, though, and Daniel buckled down. He became an associate editor of the law review and wound up in the top 10% of his class. After...
...time I was signing the agreement," Mrs. Juanita Mayle said. "It was like putting a price tag on our husbands' bodies." Mrs. Barbara Toler, 25, like the other young widows, has had difficulty planning for the future: "I go with a very fine man-he's a miner-and we do plan to be married. But until this is settled, I don't feel I'm free." Mrs. Toler signed the agreement after "the company told us it would take three to five years to get them...
...dangerous job of digging into the pits where the men were entombed. Government and union officials have balked at the agreement. The Bureau of Mines wants to continue the investigation into the causes of the disaster. More than that, a local union official insists, the fragile emotional balance that miners must strike with fear each day they enter the mines will be forever shaken. "Mine folklore says they must be got out. To go down every day, the miner must know that if anything goes wrong, there will be unrelenting effort to get him out. If they give...
...Even a Shoe. Blanda has been getting his kicks in pro football ever since 1949 when he joined the Chicago Bears and played with such venerable old fry as Sid Luckman and Bulldog Turner. Son of a Youngwood, Pa., coal miner, George was signed out of the University of Kentucky for a measly $600which Bear Coach George Halas demanded that he pay back if he made the team. He made it, playing linebacker and filling in as quarterback and place kicker. Never happy under Halas ("He was too cheap to even buy me a kicking shoe"), Blanda came...
...smaller roles, Jan Miner brings a neat touch of coarseness to the Widow of Florence, undoing her tightly-laced bodice when she sits down to talk; and Amy Taubin has some amusing moments as her seduced daughter Diana. Wyman Pendleton seems to draw strength for the elderly lord Lafew from his walkingstick, whereas the strange Gentleman (Ken Parker) seems to draw his from a bottle. Tom Tarpey makes a valiant attempt at Lavatch, but nothing can hide the fact that this is one of the most tiresome clowns ever penned (in his 1953 production at Stratford, Ontario, Tyrone Guthrie obviated...